Pink Cat Studio Design Team Contest #2

This was my card for the Pink Cat Studio Design Team Contest #2 over at Paper Craft Planet. In order to participate, you had to use a PCS image on a one layer card. That's right, one layer! I agonized over this layout for a week (and then my photo looks flat - grrr!). What I finally decided to do is emboss a long rectangle from Spellbinders on the front of the card and then place my image from Q.T. Hooty in the middle. I then masked off the area and stamped a tree image from Magnolia stamps in the background. The images were coloured with SU and CTMH stamps. The ladies hats were paper pieced with some CTMH scraps and then I added some embellishments from CTMH. For my final touches, I sponged SU Baby Blue ink around the edge of my card and then used my SU spiral note punch to break up the harsh bottom line. This task was such a challenge - thanks to the great ladies over at PCS for working my mojo to the max! Sory for the quality of this photo, I'll see if I can work on brightening the image up. It does look better in real life - I swear - lol!